Monthly Archive for April, 2007

: April, 2007

Thanks to Sonic Boom in Ballard for allowing me to win a pair of tickets to The Postmarks show at Chop Suey Sunday night. I only caught three songs of opening band The Stares, but nonetheless, I was really impressed. They’re now my favorite local band. The singer/keyboardist’s voice kind of reminded me of Feist’s and their music was hauntingly beautiful. Miami’s The Postmarks were second on the bill. If you can imagine Astrud Gilberto fronting The Funk Brothers with lots of cool samples and keyboards, you’d have a good idea of what they sound like. …

Before Isaac Brock and his bandmates in Modest Mouse (including new guitarist Johnny Marr, formerly of the Smiths) began work on the current album, “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank,” Brock spent a couple of weeks in Spain with his fiancee. …

Friends and local rock stars threw a sendoff party for founding Heart guitarist Roger Fisher and his wife, Eva, Tuesday night at the bar at The Edgewater Hotel, where the Beatles stayed when they played Seattle in the mid-1960s. …

Amazon.com has launched Go Indie, a new category in its indie music store that includes a hand-picked selection of nearly 700 titles from more than 30 independent labels, among them Anti, Bloodshot Records, Domino Records, Touch N Go and Seattle’s Sub Pop and Barsuk labels. …

I rarely listen to the radio nowadays, and usually when I do it’s either to KEXP or NPR. But, once in a while 107.7 The End does something to make me think that maybe not all commercial radio stations are bad. …